All method is imperfect. Error is all around it, and at the least opportunity invades it… But what can we do? There is no other way.
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle Quotes
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.
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Birth: | 21st September, 1866 |
Death: | 28th February, 1936 |
Nationality: | French |
Profession: | Bacteriologist, Microbiologist, Physician |
Charles Jules Henry Nicolle was born in Rouen, France. He was a French bacteriologist who received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his identification of lice as the transmitter of epidemic typhus. He received his M.D. in 1893 from the Pasteur Institute. He was a key researcher in discovering a deadly organism, toxoplasmosis. He also wrote fiction and philosophy through his life, including the books Le Pâtissier de Bellone, Les deux Larrons, and Les Contes de Marmouse.
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